Aurigny needs to take control
NOBODY will be that surprised to find out that the review commissioned by the States into Aurigny’s ‘annus horribilis’ of 2024 has revealed that many of the problems it has experienced this year were not its fault, and were beyond its control.
Isn’t that what such reviews are there for? Take the heat off and buy some time.
By then, who will be particularly worried what the report says?
So those unhappy with Aurigny, and the potential damage it might have done to the island this year, won’t be very satisfied to learn that the worst sins management committed were to be ‘too optimistic’ in its plans for the summer season.
Experts say that the strategy it embarked upon could have, would have, worked, if it hadn’t been hit by unforeseeable disasters and let down by third party suppliers.
It certainly was an unprecedented chain of events and many of Aurigny’s problems were in the way it dealt with them.
The review also looks at the first stage of the incremental summer schedule for 2025 – finally on sale from today – and says that it seems sensible.
Aurigny is now back in control, and it has to make 2025 work.
What we fear is out of the airline’s control, and indeed, the island’s, is what damage 2024 might have done to Guernsey as a destination.